Seniors, how close are we getting to becoming a police state?

Some schools now have security officers on duty now. Today's Pearls before Swine comic strip brings this to mind for the possible future.

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Update: May I add that our freedoms are very slowly and quietly slipping away. For instance minority now rules, not majority, being politically correct has gone way too far and we, the citizens are being frisked and embarrassed when traveling by air within our own boundaries.

Update 2: These are awesome answers and it's difficult to choose just one answer as best.
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Best Answer: They had police assigned to the high schools where I grew up--you didn't dare go to the bathrooms in school unless you wanted to get robbed and beat up (if not worse), teachers were having guns pulled on them in the classroom, etc. And this was 50 years ago. We had police patrolling everywhere because we had a big gang problem (they still do back there). I feel now today that there is less police around; when I moved to this neighborhood we had the university police, the CHP and the regular city police cruising by regularly but now I only see the city police, lots of cutbacks. it'd be sweet to live without having to have PC stuff but there are too many people who don't seem to have enough common sense so we have to set down the rights and wrongs for them, sadly. Almost everything you mentioned has been put into place as a result of something else that has happened (often many times)--all that airport stuff is a result of people trying to sneak stuff onto the planes. Security in schools is a result of students going ballistic partly because their parents didn't take enough time or interest in seeing their kid emotionally/mentally falling apart. It's a whole action-reaction thing. If no one tried to rob someone else, didn't burglarize others, didn't mug or murder or do all those things, we wouldn't need to lock our doors, we could have things delivered and left outside our doors without someone stealing it, we could leave windows wide open in summer, we could live a lot more freely. If people didn't graffiti everything, if people wouldn't litter, if people didn't vandalize, we wouldn't have to pay taxes to hire people to fix those things. We elect politicians whose platform suits us the best so those politicians pass laws to "protect" their constituents (us). So it's one of those Catch-22 things, if we didn't have so many lawbreakers, we wouldn't need to much law enforcement, if we didn't have so many laws, there wouldn't be so many laws to break, etc. Like I say, I am so glad I'm old and won't have to deal with whatever the future is going to be like because I don't think I'd want to live there.

It's probably worse than most people realize. Note that many municipal police departments are getting surplus war equipment from the military! What do they need it for? It's beyond crowd control, or "riot" control. These armored vehicles and weapons are designed to KILL and or disable, hundreds of people at a time. They use the excuse that the criminals are more dangerous and better armed. Not so sure that can be proven. It looks more and more, as if police departments are gearing up to do some serious mass killing. They are overstating their risks by a factor that's impossible to verify.

According to FBI statistics, 79 cops died in the line of duty in 2013. Of these 23 died in auto accidents. There are a LOT of cops. These numbers make their job safer than teaching school. Does your kid's 3rd grade teacher want an armored Humvee to go to work? Statistically, the teacher needs it more.

This might have some connection to our increasing border security. They are building a fence, and increasing the manpower along the border. Even getting help from the National Guard! Most of the Mexicans are going south now. Very few are coming north. Do you suppose the security is to keep us in?? Think about the "Iron Curtain, and the Berlin Wall.

Question your local police department, the next time they get a new armored vehicle or a new "crowd control" device. Ask them why they need it? Ask then to verify the need.

The schools where I live have police officers permanently on duty. With the many school shootings and terror attacks, it has become necessary. I don't think we're far from a police state. If things keep happening like they did in France (which is likely), it will come a lot sooner than later. I think at first, it will be to protect the citizens of the world, but in the end it will be just the opposite - a means to control.

Your there. When the citizen can be beat and framed for so much as speaking to a cop. When they refuse to take complaints about themselfs, when they see no wrong in anything they do, can destroy and damage private property at will. and atempt to murder you if you try to complain, make death threats, and rigg the jurys and ignore all law at will, only there to serve themselfs and there freinds. You live in a police state. Been there and had the American police do all of the above. Forced to flee America. Not because I broke a law. But that I did speak to a cop and was near murdered for. Then there cover up began. and they can not stand a person to speak the truth of what they are.

Actually, we aren't even close. The security guards in the schools are a necessity and have been there for a number of years. What happens is, some parents who have no guts and balls, have their kids buy their drugs in school for them, this is what the security guards are there to prevent. But, a "true" police state, we're decades away from that. The schools also have metal detectors, and video surveillance as well.

Given the fact that a Police Officer in most states, provinces,
countries throughout the world can always count on his/her
colleagues and their employers to back them up they
can get away with murder in quite a few cases, I would argue
that "we" are already in the process of becoming a police
controlled world rather than just "a police state".

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More crowded conditions from overpopulation equals more rules, laws and police protection. It's a growing and vicious cycle!

Things definitely seem to be changing very quickly. I like to think that all the added security measures we see are actually meant to protect our basic rights of privacy, safety, and freedom of speech, religion, etc. With added security at schools, airports, banks, etc. With the use of guards, dogs, cameras, wiretaps, etc. It does make me wonder.

It is a fine line between too much intervention and protection. With the world becoming smaller and smaller, with fear rampant, those who want police states are making progress. However here in the USA, we still can travel in our country without being stopped for IDs, we can still worship how we want, attend schools of our choice, work where we want to, etc. Despite the chaos in the world, I think we are a ways from an actual police state. I pray we never get to that point. By travel in our country, I meant travel by car, not planes.